Did God pull my leg?

I confirm that God has a good sense of humour. And great timing sense. He knows that I have been busy with certain things and not been spending as much time (as I should) on the Word.

So He pulled my leg. To be precise, my hamstring. While playing football on Thu (Note: if you were to speak to my colleagues and footie friends, they would suggest it's my stubbornness and lack of warm-up. Can't blame Him all the time!). So I stayed in this weekend (then again, I stayed in most weekends) and did a fair bit of reading and praying. And to replace the weekend sermon, I listened to an audio clip by Ravi Zacharias, titled "Flirting with the Truth".

I used to listen to his audio clips back in Uni and in my KPMG days. It is certainly refreshing to hear his prophetic and insightful words again. This message touched on Acts 24 as Paul was placed before Felix, who the latter was hoping for a spectacle/show by the former. However as Paul defended his "trial" and spoke on "righteousness, self-control and judgement", it was clearly all too much for Felix and his adulterous partner who soon has Paul removed from his presence.

I think I too will be disturbed if I were to sitting in Felix's shoes as Paul gave a non-watered down version of the gospel which is sadly found lacking nowadays. The modern world's focus on the emotional and political aspects of life has removed that edge from the gospel. As we analyse and debate on certain moral issues, it is so easy (and common) to reach that common ground - lets agree to disagree. There isn't a good and wrong answer here.

Moving away from the gospel and becoming receptive and accepting of other viewpoints could and possibly would lead us to lose the ability to discern. As Ravi puts it - "The closer one gets to God, the more one understands what's right and wrong. And what is imperative". And little wonder it is written in the scriptures - "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."

While it is good to be technically and theologically sound, "theological constructs, in Ravi's words, can be argued and can be ignored, but our lives cannot be refuted if God is obvious in our lives".

Living that life will not be easy. And a struggle against media bombardment and subjected to the barrage of "acceptable, politically-right moral values" thrown forward by the politicians, celebs and the likes.

But if He could pull my leg to show me a simple lesson, I would want to give Him my life to be eternally transformed.